Minority Studies category: 588 books
by Janet Michello, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Institutions play a dominant role in our society and influence the manner in which we live. Institutions form the basic structure of society and impact our access to information, employment, financial and educational resources, and quality of life. This book showcases how American institutions perpetuate...
Taipei
City of Displacements
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize
This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal...
by Donald L. Anderson, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1996
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Donald Anderson highlights the necessity in the fight against poverty to first and foremost organize communities and let them decide their courses...
South of the Clouds
Tales from Yunnan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The tales included here represent all of Yunnan Province�s officially designated ethnic minorities, and include creation myths, romances, historical legends, tales explaining natural phenomena, ghost stories, and festival tales. The tales are peopled by memorable characters, such as the Tibetan...
Coming through the Fire
Surviving Race and Place in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 1996
In Coming through the Fire, prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time with insights forged by a lifetime of confronting racial oppression in America. Born in a small rural town in northern Alabama, raised by his grandparents, Lincoln portrays in rich...
Many Voices, One Nation
Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Many Voices, One Nation explores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America’s many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, offer distinctive insight into the peopling of the United States from the Europeans’ North...
Racism and Everyday Life
Social Theory, History and 'Race'
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the sociologies of racism and everyday life in a new way in order to reflect on these questions. Smith argues that racism and everyday life are not just 'act' and 'context' respectively,...
We Changed the World
African Americans 1945-1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1997
For all of the continuity of African-American history, including the long history of struggle, the years between 1945 and 1970 represented a new moment. It was a time of new possibilities and new vision, a time when black Americans were determined to be the architects of an inclusive America that...
Dispositions as Habits of Mind
Making Professional Conduct More Intelligent
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Dispositions as Habits of Mind provides opportunities for candidates in teacher education programs, which focus on nurturing and assessing dispositions, to see the habits of mind for making professional conduct more intelligent, practice them, and receive feedback about their performance. Some scholars...
Borders and Debordering
Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of...
Stakes Is High
Race, Faith, and Hope for America
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
2018 Religion Communicators Council (RCC**) Wilbur Award, Books-Non-Fiction**
"Michael W. Waters...is both blunt and lyrical as he meditates on police violence, racism, hip-hop, and the power of faith." —**"**New and Noteworthy," Sojourners, April 2017
What happens...
Black, Jewish, and Interracial
It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father,...
Mapping Shangrila
Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila�a place that previously had existed only in fiction�had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been...
Technological Competition and Interdependence
The Search for Policy in the United States, West Germany, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Advanced industrial nations face many difficult political and economic problems due to the accelerating pace and evolving character of technological change. In this volume, economists and political scientists discuss analytic and policy issues relating to the current state of technological capability...